Attention under pressure
Hannah Natanson spent months fighting to protect her sources after the FBI raided her home. On Monday, she won a Pulitzer Prize. The story is a masterclass in something we rarely discuss: attention under pressure. Investigative journalism demands an extraordinary kind of visual and cognitive endurance. Hours of document review. Spotting patterns across thousands of pages. Maintaining focus when the stakes — and the stress — are sky-high. Most of us aren't facing federal subpoenas. But many of us are facing something quieter: visual coordination challenges that make sustained attention feel like a battle. For individuals with amblyopia — commonly known as lazy eye — the brain has learned to favour one eye over the other, compromising depth perception and binocular vision. Everyday tasks like reading or screen work become an uphill climb. That's where Amblyotube comes in. Developed by Seven Sportz, it's a Meta Quest app that delivers a different visual experience to each ey...